A Relationship Gardening Tool

This is an invitation to think of your current partnership as a garden of interconnected plants, which itself is connected to a much wider ecosystem of other gardens of relationships with others, within and beyond your own circles.

This is an invitation to consider the ways you love and grow together through a lens of sustainability, abundance, interdependence, and mutual flourishing.

This is an invitation to consider the garden of your current partnership as well as the garden of your partnership in the near future — a more flourishing version, whatever that means to you.

This is an invitation to feel into what needs more or less water, what needs more or less direct sunlight, what needs weeding, what needs a shift in the soil, what is flourishing as is — in order to move toward even more mutual flourishing.

You may want to do this together with your partner(s), or you may want to do this separately first and then come together to talk about it.

What you’ll need: large paper, colorful things with which to write/draw.

You can find the full tool here at Medium.com.

Orion Johnstone